Film (2013)
Written and directed by
John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
A moving, fascinating and beautifully crafted documentary about a lifelong nanny who, completely unrecognized during her lifetime, turned out to have been a first-rate art photographer.
Becoming Cuba
Play (2014)
by Melinda Lopez
Directed by M. Bevin O’Gara
Huntington Theatre Company
Calderwood Pavilion, Boston Center for the Arts, South End, Boston, MA
March 28 – May 3, 2014
A period piece set at the turn of the twentieth century in Cuba, with the Spanish-American War looming.
Under The Skin
Film (2013)
Directed by Jonathan Glazer
Starring Scarlett Johansson
Kendall Square Cinema, Cambridge, MA
A long, quiet, dreary exploration of seductively supranormal appropriation, with a protagonist who teeters near the edge of human feeling.
Watermark
Film (2013)
Directed by Jennifer Baichwal & Edward Burtynsky
A beautifully photographed documentary about water, in its various forms and locales, that travels as widely and loosely as its subject-matter.
Zakir Hussain and the Masters of Percussion
Concert
Zakir Hussain, tabla
Niladri Kumar, sitar
Dilshad Khan, sarangi
V. Selvaganesh, ghatam
Vijay S Chavan, dholki
Deepak Bhatt, dhol
Steve Smith, drums
World Music/CRASHarts
Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
April 6, 2014
One of the world’s premier tabla player blows the roof off Symphony Hall with a band of world-class Indian musicians, mostly percussionists, and an out of this world American drummer.